139X (Newsreel #20)San Francisco NewsreelProducer: Newsreel25 min., BW, USThe film details the efforts of Berkeley students to develop support for a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X...

Adventures in AssimilationRichard Dean Moss1992, 8 min., Color, USIn this engaging performance video, Moss experiments with his own choreography and dance, using movement within a fixed frame to express self-discovery and the aesthetics of identity....

Afro-punkJames Spooner2003, 66 min., Color, USAFRO-PUNK explores race identity within the punk scene. This film tackles hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power. We follow the lives of four people w...

Against the GrainSeyi Adebanjo & Betty Yu2011, 6 min., ColorTo break the mold of past documentaries about gender transformation, AGAINST THE GRAIN goes beyond the usual gender binary and linear racial focus. This short documentary follows the story of OluSeyi,...

All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11Lillian Benson2003, 28 min., Color, USTwelve African American firefighters were among the World Trade Center victims on September 11th, 2001. This moving documentary profiles these heroes, their families and the ultimate sacrifices they ...

amBUSHedJared Katsiane1992, 12 min., BWThis beautifully shot film depicts the brutal and daily occurance of police violence. AMBUSHED uses experimental narrative techniques to delve into the life and consciousness of two generations of Afr...

Anomaly: A Documentary Film about Multiracial IdentityJessica Chen DrammehProducer: Jessica Chen Drammeh & Sharon K. Smith2013, 47 min., Color, USANOMALY is an award-winning documentary film that provides a thought-provoking look at multiracial identity by combining personal narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American culture. Th...

AWOLBrigid Maher2005, 20 min., Color, US/IraqKeisha Johnson, an African American soldier, goes AWOL in Iraq after she flees a violent incident. On her "walkabout" journey, she encounters children who decide to help her. Keisha and the children g...

Behind These Walls: Mumia Abu-jamal and the Long Struggle For FreedomJule Buerjes & Heike KleffnerProducer: KAOS FIlm and Video Team Cologne1996, 70 min., Color, USOn August 17, 1995, Mumia Abu-Jamal, journalist and former Black Panther Party Member was scheduled to be executed. His case--he is one of 3,000 death row inmates in the US--has raised international a...

Beyond the Bricks: A New Era of EducationDerek KoenProducer: Ouida Washington2010, 31 min., Color, USBEYOND THE BRICKS follows African‐ American students Shaquiel Ingram and Erick Graham as they struggle to stay on track in the Newark public school system. Fifteen year‐old Shaquiel is a bright studen...

Black BodyThomas Allen Harris1992, 7 min., Color, USThomas Allen Harris uses text, special effects, and a single bound male nude to emphasize the humanity underlying the multiple definitions of black identity and subjectivity. The audience may be asked...

A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967. This film contains a prison int...

Blaze: The Truth Through Hip HopMaurice Lynch2006, 90 min., Color, USThe Hip-Hop Christian movement has been uplifting youth by delivering positive religious messages that are not about drugs, sex, or hate but of hope and peace.

In a society where artists ...

Bobby Seale a.k.a. Interview with Bobby Seale (Newsreel #44)San Francisco NewsreelProducer: Newsreel1969, 15 min., BW, USAt the time of this moving prison interview, Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale had faced a series of charges of conspiracy in connection with his involvement in the Black Liberation and Anti-wa...

Bringin' in Da SpiritRhonda L. Haynes2003, 60 min., Color, USThrough the use of first person narrative and rare archival images, this documentary provides a moving glimpse of the women who have skillfully brought scores of children across the threshold of exist...

Call to ManhoodNarcel G. Reedus1994, 57 min., BW, USCALL TO MANHOOD is an emotional testament to the brothers who are reaching back into the community to save young black boys. This documentary traces the steps taken by the Fulton County Human Services...

Chasing the MoonDawn Suggs1991, 4 min., BW, USThis fascinating film presents the meditations of a Black lesbian grappling with the memory of an attack that makes her wary about being out on the street....

The Cinematic Jazz of Julie DashYvonne Welbon1992, 26 min., Color, USThis is an in-depth interview with filmmaker Julie Dash, whose first feature film, DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, has become a critical and word-of-mouth sensation since its release in the Winter of 1992. Her...

Claiming Open SpacesAustin Allen1995, 87 min., Color, USCLAIMING OPEN SPACES explores African-American culture as it clashes with the design of the modern American city. The film includes a comprehensive section on New Orleans--the vital place of historica...

Close to HomeRodney Evans1998, 24 min., Color, USCLOSE TO HOME documents the filmmaker's journey as he comes out to a conservative, Jamaican family and negotiates a painful relationship with a 21-year old heterosexual man....

Community Control (Newsreel #24)NewsreelProducer: Newsreel1969, 50 min., BW, USThis film documents one of the most important struggles for education in the sixties. In 1968, under intensive community pressure from Black and Latino communities, the State of New York chose three N...

Crocodile ConspiracyZeinabu Irene Davis1986, 13 min., Color, US/CubaThis charming tale focuses on Willa Ledbetter, an African American middle-aged school teacher in Watts, and her longing to visit her parent's homeland of Cuba. In the face of unexpected political and...

De*fat*tingMichelle Lewis & Third World Newsreel WorkshopProducer: Third World Newsreel Workshop2000, 13 min., Color, USToday is the first day of the elusive diet for Lewis' main character. A funny and poignant meditation on American society's fascination with thinness, DE*FAT*TING explores food, addiction, obesity, an...

Deft Changes: An Improvised ExperienceAlonzo Speight1991, 10 min., Color, USThrough short improvised sketches, this video explores the generational conflicts between a father and son who are each musicians. It features performances by guitarist Mark Whittfield, and the late m...

DemarcationsKym RagusaProducer: Third World Newsreel Workshop1992, 5 min., Color, USDEMARCATIONS uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape. Ragusa focuses on ways in which identity and exoticism are played out on the level of the body....

DeportedRachèle Magloire & Chantal Regnault2012, 72 min., Color, HaitiDEPORTED follows members of a unique group of men in Haiti: criminal deportees from North America. Since 1996, the United States has implemented a policy of repatriation of all foreign residents who h...

A Dream Is What You Wake Up FromLarry Bullard & Carolyn Y. JohnsonProducer: Third World Newsreel1978, 50 min., Color, USEDUCATIONAL VIDEO-ON-DEMAND STREAMING NOW AVAILABLE: twn.tugg.com/titles/a-dream-is-what-you-wake-up-from

Originally released in 1978, A DREAM IS WHAT YOU WAKE UP FROM explores the role o...

Encounter at the Intergalactic CaféThomas Allen Harris1996, 17 min., Color, USA videotape of a live performance--a mythopoetic rendering of the original encounters between African, Indigenous and European peoples in the present day "border regions". Saint, comic, demon, deity, ...

Extra ChangeCarmen Coustaut1988, 28 min., Color, USA realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love. Focusing on society's expectations for young women, EXTRA CHANGE is an e...

Ezekiel's DreamNarcel G. Reedus1994, 15 min., BW, USEZEKIEL'S DREAM starring Steve Coulter is a visual poem describing the last thoughts of a black man perparing for the fight of his life. This film has garnered numerous awards and has screened in Berl...

Fade to BlackTony Cokes & Donald Trammel1991, 33 min., Color, USThis videotape is a meditation on contemporary race relations. In voiceover, two Black men describe events that typically go unnoticed or discounted by the white mainstream. They examine gestures, hes...

Fight Black: Urban Martial ArtsThird World Newsreel WorkshopProducer: Third World Newsreel Workshop1991, 15 min., Color, USMarcus Salgado is a young martial artist from the South Bronx who leads the viewer through a stunning array of community martial arts activity in New York City. The tape shows classes that promote hea...

Finding ChristaCamille Billops & James Hatch1991, 55 min., Color, USThis documentary presents a moving yet unsentimental view of motherhood and adoption. It explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman with her natural mother 20 years after being giv...

Finding Common Ground in New OrleansWalidah ImarishaProducer: Phil Fivel Rothberg2006, 23 min., Color, USIn this short documentary, activist and poet Walidah Imarisha travels to New Orleans and other neighboring towns shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. In her path she encounter grassroo...

For Colored Boys Who've Considered HomicideNarcel G. Reedus1995, 27 min., Color, USIn this spiritual drama, an ancestor (Thomas Merdis) travels through time and space to interrogate a murderer (Chong Thi Nguyen) to find out why young black boys are killing each other.

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Four WomenJulie Dash1979, 4 min., Color, USAn imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone on four common stereotypes of Black women....

Frankie & JocieJocelyn Taylor1994, 20 min., Color, USExamining the relationships between brother and sister, hetero and queer, male and female, this video weaves a provocative discussion between a Black lesbian and her straight brother. In an eloquent e...

From Harlem to HarvardFour Square ProductionsProducer: Four Square Productions1982, 30 min., Color, USAn excellent discussion film for college bound students, this thoughtful documentary captures the alienation, prejudice and insecurity that often confront African American students at predominantly wh...

Ganja and HessBill Gunn1970, 110 min., Color, USThis extraordinary foray into the realms of Black consciousness has acquired deserved status as a cinema classic. The vampire film genre is used to create a mythical vision of the forces that shape Dr...

Gershwin & Bess: A Dialogue with Anne BrownNicole FranklinProducer: EPIPHANY Inc.2010, 36 min., Color, USIn 2004 at her home in Oslo, Norway, soprano Anne Wiggins Brown sat down with tenor Dr. William A. Brown (no relation) of the Center Black Music Research for an on-the-record conversation about origin...

Gideon's ArmyDawn PorterProducer: Julie Goldman2013, 95 min., Color, USGIDEON’S ARMY follows the personal stories of Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick, three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South ch...

Hair-tageShawn BateyProducer: Third World Newsreel Workshop1997, 10 min., Color, USThis short documentary examines the decisions involved in growing and wearing dreadlocks in African-American communities. Through interviews and playful camerawork, Batey explores the motivations and ...

Heart of HarlemBrian Lindstrom
Bob McCullough2001, 9 min., Color, USHEART OF HARLEM traces the life and times of Holcombe Rucker, who founded a summer basketball league while working for New York Citys Parks Department in order to give young people a positive alternat...

Heaven, Earth and HellThomas Allen Harris1994, 26 min., Color, USReflecting on the "trickster" figure in African and Native American cultures, while recounting the story of his first love, this beautiful work incorporates the critical texts of Frantz Fanon, bell ho...

Human Traffic: Past and PresentFrances-Anne Solomon2012, 34 min., Color, USThis eye-opening film documents the 2011 Conference on Human Trafficking and features the work of leading scholars, historians, lawyers, activists, and artists to generate a broad discussion of some o...

IllusionsJulie Dash1983, 34 min., BW, USSet in a fictitious Hollywood studio in 1942, this elegant drama contrasts society's views of Black women with their self-perceptions. An ambitious movie executive, Mignon Dupree is perceived by her ...

In a Perfect World…Daphne McWilliamsProducer: Daphne McWilliams & Sam Pollard2015, 76 min., USIN A PERFECT WORLD... Explores all the requisite dynamics of what it is to be a man raised by a single mother. The inspiration for the film came from the director's own relationship with her son who h...

In the Spirit of PeaceAl SantanaProducer: Third World Newsreel2001, 8 min., Color, USAfter September 11th, religion becomes the vehicle for a community looking for commensurability in the midst of an environment that would rather seek quick answers to a larger problem....

Ina Mae BestCharlene Gilbert1993, 25 min., ColorA documentary portrait of a courageous African American woman, who after 18 years working at a textile factory in Goldsboro, North Carolina, became a passionate and outspoken leader in a struggle to u...

Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans in Southern CaliforniaTiffany Walton & Lizz MullisProducer: Tiffany Walton, Lizz Mullis & Richard Goldlander2015, 21 min., Color, USMore than one million Mexicans are of African descent, yet this heritage is often forgotten, denied, and many times stigmatized, both in Mexico and in Chicanx communities in the United States. INVISIB...

The KKK Boutique ain't Just RednecksCamille Billops & James Hatch1994, 60 min., ColorWrite Billops and Hatch: "Even as late as a hundred years ago, discrimination on the basis of race was considered a natural and even desirable trait for humans to possess. We Americans have tried to i...

Land Where My Fathers DiedDaresha Kyi1991, 24 min., Color, USA fiercely independent young African American woman and her nouveau-nationalist photographer boyfriend decide to visit the father she hasn't seen in years. The tragicomic reunion shatters her illusion...

A Litany For Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde (90)Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle ParkersonProducer: Third World Newsreel1996, 90 min., Color, USAn epic portrait of the eloquent, award-winning Black, lesbian, poet, mother, teacher and activist, Audre Lorde, whose writings -- spanning five decades -- articulated some of the most important socia...

Little Brother: SeriesNicole FranklinColor, USLITTLE BROTHER is a series of short documentary films dedicated to giving Black boys a unique voice. Beginning in 2010, filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett started taking an annual look at B...

Little Brother: A Do Right Man (Chapter 3)Jasmin TiggettProducer: Nicole Franklin, Epiphany, Inc.2012, 17 min., Color, USLITTLE BROTHER is a series of short documentary films dedicated to giving Black boys a unique voice. Beginning in 2010, filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett started taking an annual look at B...

Little Brother: Manchild in the Promised Land (Chapter 5)Nicole FranklinProducer: Nicole Franklin & J. Tiggett2015, 17 min., Color, USLITTLE BROTHER: MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND is Chapter 5 of the film series that features young Black boys and their thoughts on Love. This chapter was filmed in Tucson, AZ, where the young men have...

Little Brother: The Fire Next Time (Chapter 4)Nicole Franklin2014, 17 min., Color, USLITTLE BROTHER is a series of short documentary films dedicated to giving Black boys a unique voice. Beginning in 2010, filmmakers Nicole Franklin and Jasmin Tiggett started taking an annual look at B...

The Lower 9: A Story of Home (Long Version)Matthew HashiguchiProducer: Matthew Hashiguchi & Elaine McMillion2012, 50 min., Color, USTHE LOWER 9: A STORY OF HOME showcases six determined Lower Ninth Ward residents who share their most intimate stories of home, as they resume their lives years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their n...

The Lower 9: A Story of Home (Short Version)Matthew HashiguchiProducer: Matthew Hashiguchi & Elaine McMillion2012, 20 min., Color, USTHE LOWER 9: A STORY OF HOME showcases four determined Lower Ninth Ward residents who share their most intimate stories of home, as they resume their lives years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their ...

This documentary interweaves archival footage and photos with contemporar...

May Day Panther a.k.a. May Day (Newsreel #29)NewsreelProducer: Newsreel1969, 15 min., BW, USThis film documents a rally in San Francisco sponsored by the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale, and other speakers addressed thousands of protesters demanding more rights for Africa...

Memory TracksJamika Ajalon1996, 12 min., UKA woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown follows the afroed spirit of a revolutionary past through London's streets: Brixton and Portobello. I used the camera as the means for reflexive analysis of...

Military OptionAl Santana & Alonzo SpeightProducer: Third World Newsreel2005, 11 min., Color, USWomen, money and travel. It's still the hook that military recruiters are using on young men, as two students discover at a Queens recruitment office. A look at the military recruitment process thro...

Mississippi TriangleChristine Choy, Worth Long, Allan SiegelProducer: Third World Newsreel1984, 120 min., Color, USThis is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict. The history of the Chinese com...

MoniqueYvonne Welbon1990, 3 min., Color, USUsing a childhood experience of racial bigotry at school, this film looks at the ways in which racism is ingrained in American society, even in the play of children. MONIQUE is a compelling exploratio...

Mother TonguePatrice MallardProducer: TWN Workshop1994, 7 min., BW, USInspired by the experience of her great-grandparents, Mallard uses the history of slavery and the nature of language to examine the profound effects of colonization on the psyche of a people....

Nana Dijo; Irresolute Radiography of Black ConsciousnessBocafloja & Cambiowashere2015, 40 min., BWNavigating in a cultural industry flooded with politically conservative projects about afro-descendency, with approaches that are fully subordinated to the cultural hegemonies and with the only intent...

Nas: Time Is IllmaticOne9 & Erik ParkerProducer: One9 & Erik Parker2014, 74 min., Color, USTwenty years after the release of Nas’s groundbreaking debut album ‘Illmatic,’ NAS: TIME IS ILLMATIC takes us into the heart of his creative process. Returning to his childhood home in Queensbridge, N...

No Time to LoseAllan Siegel & Patricia Benoit1988, 28 min., Color, USAverage New Yorkers describe their childhood experiences as "carefree", and "lots of fun and games". But 40% of all Black children and 50% of all Hispanic children in New York City live below the nat...

Ocoee: Legacy of the Election Day MassacreBianca White & Sandra Krasa2002, 26 min., Color, USIn the early 20th century, Ocoee was home to one of Florida's most prosperous African American communities. On Election Day 1920, Mose Norman and July Perry attempted to vote and the African American ...

Older Women and LoveCamille Billops & James Hatch1987, 26 min., Color, USUsing interviews and dramatizations, this film achieves a touching and often humorous look at social attitudes towards relationships between older women and younger men. The filmmakers are involved on...

On the DownlowAbigail Child2006, 54 min., Color, US"On the Downlow" presents an intimate portrait of four men negotiating their bisexual desire within the African-American community of Cleveland, Ohio. These men selfdescribe as "dipping on both sides ...

One PeopleAl SantanaProducer: Laura L. Fowler & Al Santana2007, 30 min., Color, USIs everything political? Against the backdrop of a gentrified Harlem community, the story centers on two sisters who have opposite views about social responsibility and the role of artists. Aliyah, a ...

People SayMary Beth Black2005, 5 min., Color, USSet to a soundtrack reminiscent of the 1960's, this insightful video montage embodies the full range of images, sights and emotions which followed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Yet, it also d...

The People UnitedAlonzo Speight1985, 60 min., Color, USBoston, 1978: It was an intense period of racial conflict over school bussing and escalating incidents of police brutality in the predominantly Black section of Roxbury. In the wake of growing racial ...

Politics from a Black Woman's InsidesYuko Edwards1997, 26 min., Color, USFollow one woman's search for the Hottentot Venus, the legendary link between ape and human and icon of black female subjectivity. Edwards's film explores the construction of race through both scienti...

Praise HouseJulie Dash1991, 30 min., Color, USThis video uses stunningly beautiful and innovative techniques to tell the story of a young woman moved to dance by a powerful and creative spirit. Despite her mother's disinterest, Hannah is driven t...

PRIMETIME: Fighting Back Against ForeclosureJennifer Fasulo & Manauvaskar KublallProducer: TWN Production Workshop2009, 23 min., Color, USThis timely film takes the viewer behind the foreclosure statistics and into the homes and hearts of two NYC women who have been pummeled by the foreclosure tsunami. It breaks down the complex issues...

Rebirth of a NationDJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid2004, 100 min., Color/BW, USFirst released in 1915, D.W. Griffith's BIRTH OF A NATION ignited worldwide controversy with its graphic depiction of racism and white supremacy in the post-Civil War south. Nearly 100 years later, co...

Remembering JasonNashid FareedProducer: Third World Newsreel Workshop2000, 24 min., Color, USDedicated to "those we have lost to needless violence", REMEMBERING JASON portrays the lives of those connected to him. After living what could be termed a normal life--school, sports, music--Jason Th...

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself.Yvonne Welbon1995, 30 min., Color, us/ChinaAn autobiographical experimental documentary about the artist's experiences as an African-American woman living in Taiwan for six years. Recreations of time and place are presented through memories, h...

Rezoning Harlem: The Battle over Harlem's FutureNatasha Florentino & Tamara GubernatProducer: Natasha Florentino, Tamara Gubernat, Juliana Alzate and Pamela Nichols2008, 40 min., Color, USSince 2002, more than 100 rezonings have been signed into law in New York City, including the rezoning of 125th Street in Harlem.

REZONING HARLEM follows longtime members of the Harlem c...

Saints RisingHailima YatesProducer: Anonamiss Productions, LLC2008, 45 min., Color, USSAINTS RISING is a documentary presenting the voices of New Orleans years after Hurricane Katrina and the breech of the levees. From children to volunteers, they discuss the troubles that were left be...

Salty Dog BluesAl Santana & Denise B Santiago2012, 52 min., Color/BW, USSALTY DOG BLUES features a group of men and women of color who served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1937 – 1989. This nine-year project examines their development as a multi-racial and int...

Sapphire and the Slave GirlLeah Gilliam1995, 17 min., BW, USThis film is loosely based on the 1950's British detective film SAPPHIRE, in which two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman who is passing for white. Referencing everyone f...

ShadesJamika Ajalon1994, 12 min., ColorSHADES explores the issues around dark and light skin in the African American community. Drawing on erotic imagery and the relation between a light skinned woman and a darker skinned Lesbian, this vid...

Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition and Creative ProgressJayne CortezProducer: Manthia Diawara2009, 100 min., Color, USFrom the 1400s to the 1800s millions of Africans were forcefully removed from Africa and shipped across the Atlantic to the so-called "New World". In 1808, the passage of the Transantlantic Slave Trad...

Slowly, ThisArthur Jafa1995, 26 min., Color, USWhen two friends meet in a crowded Manhattan restaurant, the conversation takes an unexpected and intimate turn. Speaking from their experiences as a Japanese American man and an African American man,...

Splash!Thomas Allen Harris1991, 10 min., Color, USSPLASH is a fable-like tale of memory and emotion. Using a range of techniques, it deftly explores the interplay between identity, fantasy, gender, homosexual desire and pre-adolescence. These forces ...

A String of PearlsCamille Billops & James Hatch2002, 56 min., Color, USWith this film, Camille Billops completes her family's trilogy - three documentaries that cover more than thirty years: "Suzanne Suzanne", shown in the New Director's series at the Museum of Modern Ar...

Suzanne, SuzanneCamille Billops & James Hatch1982, 30 min., BW, USThis poignant documentary profiles a young black woman's struggle to confront the legacy of a physically abusive father and her headlong flight into drug abuse. Suzanne, after years of physical and ps...

Take Your BagsCamille Billops1998, 11 min., Color, US"My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America, they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in the New World, their bags had been switched, and...

Trans Lives Matter! Justice for Islan NettlesSeyi Adebanjo2013, 7 min., Color, USTRANS LIVES MATTER! JUSTICE FOR ISLAN NETTLES is a powerful and moving document of a community vigil for Islan Nettles, a Transgender Womyn of Color who was beaten to death in front of a New York Poli...

Twelve Disciples of Nelson MandelaThomas Allen HarrisProducer: Thomas Allen Harris2005, 73 min., Color, USIn the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who raised him as a son but whom he could never call "father." As part of the first wave ...

United Front Against Racism (Newsreel #37)Newsreel20 min., BW, USA report on the 3-day conference called by the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, in July 1969. The film emphasizes the nature of developing Fascism in the U.S., covering Imperialism, Capital...

Untold LegacyLeslie K. BrownProducer: Third World Newsreel2005, 12 min., Color, USIn February 2005, the NY City Council considered a bill that would require companies doing business with NY to investigate and reveal any past complicity and profit from the Trans-Atlantic slave trade...

Vintage: Families of ValueThomas Allen Harris1995, 72 min., Color, USVINTAGE is an experimental documentary which looks at three African American families through the eyes of lesbian and gay siblings--including the filmmaker and his younger brother. Three groups of que...

Voices of the GodsAl Santana1985, 60 min., Color, USThis documentary captures the rich legacy of ancient African religions practiced today in the United States. It provides viewers with rare insight into the practices and beliefs of the Akan and Yoruba...

Voting Rights NowMary Beth Black2006, 12 min., Color, USOn April 1st, 2006, seven month after Hurricane Katrina devasted the city of New Orleans and weeks before the elections for Mayor of New Orleans, thousands of New Orleans residents marched to protest ...

Water Ritual #1: An Urban Rite of PurificationBarbara McCullough1990, 4 min., BW, USAn original and visionary work, this cathartic film links the present with the ancestral past. A graceful young African American woman emerges from the ruins of a crumbling building. She disrobes, and...

Wave: A True Story in Hip HopTony Wesley & Brian BullockProducer: Tony Wesley & Brian Bullock2016, 46 min., Color, USSee how the legendary Tony "Mr. Wave" Wesley went from a kid in the Bronx to an international B-Boy superstar to entrepreneur and activist. This film includes never before seen archival pictures and i...

Whatever It TakesChristopher Wong2011, 92 min., Color, USWHATEVER IT TAKES chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the very first year of the Bronx Center for Science & Mathematics, an innovative public high school in New York City.

Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins ...

The World Saxophone QuartetBarbara McCullough1980, 5 min., Color, USA glance at an innovative quartet of jazz saxophonists, Hamiet Bluiet, Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, and David Murray, both in concert and conversation....